iPhonetunes member Tony Karakashian reviewed Saturday Night Fever

To be honest, when Robin asked me to review this game, I shuddered. Having grown up in the 70s, I could only imagine what I was in store for with this game.  Worse, since these games are tie-ins to recent movies, I had to wonder: was Paramount thinking of releasing an updated Saturday Night Fever?  I tried not to think about it…

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With only one day left on the 2008 calendar Softbank finally released the highly anticipated 1-Seg TV tuner and battery for the Apple iPhone. Say what you will about the iPhone’s steep challenge in Japan, but Softbank has come through with one of the best Apple accessories ever to hit the market.

The device looks almost exactly like the iPhone itself but feels incredibly lightweight thus allowing the add-on to fit perfectly into the high-bar aesthetic tastes of most Apple fans.

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Just in time for those new year resolutions, PushupFu is a new paid-for iPhone/iPod Touch application designed to get you fit, via press-ups. There are now a lot of fitness apps available for the iPhone. Current leader WeightBot lets you weigh yourself daily. Other like iPump let you email your progress to virtual Gym buddies.

read it here uk.techcrunch.com

[CES 2009] We all know the Ladybug, the cute award winning iPod dock created by Vestalife. Today, the company is launching two new versions of its famous product. It is hard to innovate from a so unique design and the company strategy this year is to improve the existing shape. With the Firefly, they made the wings more curvy and the whole look becomes more elegant. The red color is also more subtle (from what I can see on the photo). The Firefly is iPhone compatible, unlike the LadyBug, and has a built-in subwoofer unlike the Jewelbox (the other new product). Features after the jump.

read it here www.ubergizmo.com

CrunchGear had mentioned about the new tool Yellowsn0w which helps in unlocking an iPhone 3G for any network all across the globe. This tool was developed by the iPhone Dev Team and seemed to work fine for some people and many had complains about it, from a small error to some permanent unlock disabilities. I still got an experimental iPhone(was a real phone but was a good experiment for me ) which belonged to my friend, and he wanted to get it unlocked.

read it here www.thewwwblog.com

In case your self-esteem has gotten too high, you should check out a small collection of work by Disney artist Stef Kardos—all of it made on the iPhone’s touchscreen.

Kardos created this and other pieces in the Brushes iPhone app and has since posted them to his Flickr account.

read it here gizmodo.com

In November, Google launched voice search capabilities for its native iPhone application. It took a fairly pointless app and made it cool, interesting and useful. But alongside that update Google added a hidden menu, which it revealed today on the Google Mobile Blog.

It may seem surprising that no one found it earlier, but when you try to get to it you’ll see why.

read it here venturebeat.com

The iPhone has been hacked in the past to use modified external keyboards, but new mods promise much more general interaction. Now, iPhone expert Ralf Ackermann has succeeded in supporting a standard Bluetooth keyboard using an external Bluetooth approach and is working on supporting an internal one.

For the external approach, Ackermann modified a Robotech Bluetooth module, which he placed in an iPhone battery sleeve and connected to the iPhone (serial) connector port at the bottom of the unit.

read it here arstechnica.com

Chicago (IL) – Using your iPhone on a cold winter day is a bit problematic, especially if you are wearing gloves. You either have to take your gloves off to dial a number, select music or look up a map - or you simply keep the device in your pocket, because the capacitive touch screen does not respond to finger input through gloves.

read it here www.tgdaily.com

Online forums have been filling up with the cries of iPhone 3G users worldwide. You can thank The Dev Team for that. The group’s latest iPhone hackery came in the form of an beta unlock tool for 3G devices two days ago. And while the instructions are easy enough to allow anyone to rip the AT&T exclusivity off of their mobile device--we’ve even given you a step-by-step guide for unlocking your iPhone 3G--not all has been well in the iPhone 3G world as of late. We’ve counted two iterations of the Dev Team’s unlocking tool thus far, each promising to fix issues, errors, and does-not-work problems that have been plaguing would-be unlockers over the past 48 hours.

read it here www.pcworld.com

Yesterday night, i got an email from Schmave, a member of iPhonebluetooth.tk. He has “pwned” the iPhone Bluetooth, and released an executable file to let you try it!

The project owner, also said: Some of you may point out that: We are jerks - MeDevil has already done this and you suck. Well I’ve got news for you. Medevil is nothing more than a half decent lair. He said he did it with no proof or words as he left the group after stealing our work, a little bit like the big ‘Z’…

read it / get it here www.spaziocellulare.com

You know the the iPhone 3G is only available in two colors: white and black. Right? Apple also made a pink iPhone 3G with the obvious intent of giving it to the ladies. If not, then some mischievous iPhone 3G factory worker must have felt like playing with spray paints one day. Or someone is playing a sick and girly joke on us.

read it here www.phonedone.com

Nikonians doubt the lack of Apple supports got their answer today; their favorite camera brand is on speaking term with Apple after all.

Nikon has released its first “iApp” for the use of iPhone and Nikon’s photo storage and sharing site, My Picturetown online, most importantly, it’s free!




read it here www.slashgear.com

Millard Grubb has announced his new ebook, Magic iPhone Tricks. This ebook shows iPhone owners how to use their iPhones to make people think they can read minds. With over 90 pages of material, the ebook also includes some nifty tricks to make you the hit of any party or business luncheon. There are also some links to great free or almost free software that any Macintosh owner would enjoy.

read it here prmac.com

Have you ever jailbroken an iPhone? Ever used a software solution to “unlock” the iPhone’s SIM slot, freeing it from the shackles of its original carrier? Chances are, the iPhone Dev Team had something to do with it. This group, made up of some of the iPhone development scene’s finest minds, spends countless hours tearing apart the iPhone to make it do all of the things Apple won’t allow - and then figures out a way to make it work for everyone. It’s tough, unpaid, and often thankless - but they keep cracking away.

read it here www.mobilecrunch.com

no apps in my iPhone, only the most useful ones for NYC. But iSteam, a steam simulator, looks like a fun one to install and keep.

As you can see in the video, the application adds ultra-realistic steam to your screen when you blow on the microphone.

read it here rodstocks.com

iPhonetunes member Tony Karakashian reviewed Iron Man

Iron Man is one of a trio of movie tie-in games brought to us from Paramount studios through their Paramount Digital Entertainment division. The game offers the player the opportunity to live last summer’s blockbuster hit. However, the controls make this a difficult task.

The game starts out as a test run being performed by Tony Stark in the latest incarnation of his armored suit. You are given directions on how to operate the suit from messages on your HUD from Jarvis, Stark’s computerized companion. The first couple of minutes is spent in a mini-tutorial in which you learn how to have the suit automatically target and fire missiles at static targets by painting them with the onscreen reticule.

read it here www.iphonetunes.net

The iPhone 3G unlock is now available. The unlocking software is called yellowsn0w, runs as an invisible application in your iPhone, and it’s very easy to install. Here’s how. [Updating as we try it]

Yellowsn0w, the iPhone 3G unlock, runs as a small command line application that gets installed in any jailbroken iPhone 3G using Installer. It’s very easy to install:

read it here gizmodo.com

David and Jerry. Larry and Sergey. It’s like a Jeopardy category: Guys who created Fortune 500 Tech Companies While at Stanford University.

Could Kayvon and Aaron be the next power dudes to join that group?

Best friends from boyhood, now sophomores at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Kayvon Beykpour and Aaron Wasserman, along with a group of five other friends, have built a free application for the iPhone that has the academic world buzzing.

read it here www.time.com

You no longer need to carry around a USB memory stick to copy and share files from one computer to another. Instead, turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a memory stick.

Memory Stick allows you to transfer files to and from your iPhone or iPod Touch by accessing it as if it were a drive, from within Windows Explorer or Finder.

read it here www.iphonedownloadblog.com

you’ve ever needed to search for text on a page on your iPhone, Safari+ has a bookmarklet with your name on it. Oh, and translation, speed-scrolling, and image displaying are covered too.

In general, the Safari+ bookmarklets offer up the same kind of functionality you’d get in a full-size browser through the magic of specialized JavaScript.

read it here lifehacker.com

Update: The Dev Team has released an image with further confirms our original suspicion. Check it out after the jump.

On the eve of the iPhone 3G software unlock, the following text just went up on the iPhone Dev Team blog:

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read it here www.mobilecrunch.com

The 2008 Best App Ever Awards nominees have now been announced and the voting is open. Sponsored by 148Apps, the inaugural competition is the first iPhone OS Application achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games released in the iTunes App Store in 2008. The goal is to help publicize the very best apps available, not just the best-selling apps.

read it here prmac.com

Gotow.net is pleased to announce the release of Mathomatic, the first full-fledged symbolic math solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. More than just a calculator, it solves algebraic problems, from simple middle-school homework to complex multivariate systems. Fine tuned for the iPhone, it sports an attractive, easy-to-use interface. After a few days, you’ll find yourself trying to tap through the output on your graphing calculator.

read it here prmac.com

Best Productivity Killer - http://bestappever.com/v/pkil/298038617/vote

Most Original User Interface - http://bestappever.com/v/moui/298038617/vote

Best Kids Game - http://bestappever.com/v/gkid/298038617/vote

Voting ends January 6, 2009. Winners will be announced at the 2009 MacWorld Expo.
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Also, to celebrate the New Year, our ‘Punch-O-Meter’ iPhone app is FREE until January 2. Download it here: http://tinyurl.com/66vxy7. Here are snippets from recent Punch-O-Meter reviews:

“Punch-O-Meter is a knock-out app”
- AppCraver

“[Punch-O-Meter] looks like good times...”
- IntoMobile

“App of the Day: Punch-O-Meter”
- iPhoneGuide
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